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...these students were no longer welcome. New York Congressman Leo Zeferetti called for the immediate deportation of the Iranians who had dangled a 140-ft. banner from the Statue of Liberty demanding: THE SHAH MUST BE TRIED AND PUNISHED. After wrapping up his report last Thursday night, Cleveland Sportscaster Gibb Shanley set fire to a small Iranian flag. "I know it's not sports," he explained to his television audience, "but it is an Iranian flag. Anybody from Iran in this country who does not like it here should leave." Station WEWS-TV received 600 calls about Shanley...
...bandsmen who returned to their town of Heartland and, after full lives, bequeathed their instruments to the four little boys who would grow up to become the second Sgt. Pepper band. These are Frampton, a sweet-faced youth with wilted blond hair, and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the brothers who are the Bee Gees...
...cannot believe Robin Gibb has the audacity to compare the Bee Gees to the Beatles. The Bee Gees' music consists only of pre-teen whining, while the Beatles are thought of as modern-day Mozarts. That is quite a difference...
Four weeks ago, an incredible half of the Top Ten hits belonged to the Bee Gees. No one has crowded so much competition off the charts since the Beatles, who once had five records in the Top Ten, but, as Robin Gibb hastens to point out, "they hadn't written all of them." The Brothers Gibb (whence Bee Gees), three sassy-smart lads from Down Under, have clearly scaled to the Very Top. The boys netted between $12 million and $15 million last year. High on the perks of stardom (big houses behind high iron gates, lots of jewelry...
...very long ago, the barbs were considerably more lethal, and the careers of the brothers far dodgier. Born in Manchester, England, to Barbara (a former nightclub singer) and Hugh Gibb (leader of a 13-piece dance band on a ferryboat), the brothers started singing in public in 1955 due to technical difficulties. Barry, then nine, and the twins Robin and Maurice, three years younger, would show up at local Manchester movie palaces and come out between shows as the Rattlesnakes, dancing and moving their lips to pop records piped in from backstage. One day the record broke just as they...